Monday, February 16, 2009
Others say, Don't Fix the Internet
A few other folks in addition to David Akin [quoted here] agree with my posting this morning entitled, "Fixing the Internet might break it worse than it’s broken now."
Michael Fraase writes, "Sound familiar? It’s the homeland portion of the Bush doctrine—trade liberty for security theater—all over again."
Scott Jarkoff writes, "Holding a drivers license has never proven to be an effective means of determining whether someone is capable of driving. Similarly, just because a person may be able to pass an 'Internet Licensing' test does not mean they will still adhere to said policies. It just reeks of short-sightedness designed to fix one problem, but which will most assuredly have unintended consequences leading to disaster."
Fernando Perriera, a former Bell Labs colleague who I have not seen since '97, writes, "The arguments for 'fixing' the internet are to me a mild form of arguments I would rather not have to be reminded of, given by Salazar's authoritarian regime I grew up under in Portugal, of how prior censorship, police control of the opposition, manipulated elections, and government-run unions were what kept us from the crime, pornography, and corruption of "decadent" countries like France (Gitane-somking leftists), England (youth-corrupting Beatles and miniskirts), the Netherlands (Amsterdam!), or Sweden (especially Sweden, with its neutrality, embrace of refugees from dictatorships, and openness about sex)."
I'm glad to see the fixers' arguments aren't being swallowed by everybody.
Michael Fraase writes, "Sound familiar? It’s the homeland portion of the Bush doctrine—trade liberty for security theater—all over again."
Scott Jarkoff writes, "Holding a drivers license has never proven to be an effective means of determining whether someone is capable of driving. Similarly, just because a person may be able to pass an 'Internet Licensing' test does not mean they will still adhere to said policies. It just reeks of short-sightedness designed to fix one problem, but which will most assuredly have unintended consequences leading to disaster."
Fernando Perriera, a former Bell Labs colleague who I have not seen since '97, writes, "The arguments for 'fixing' the internet are to me a mild form of arguments I would rather not have to be reminded of, given by Salazar's authoritarian regime I grew up under in Portugal, of how prior censorship, police control of the opposition, manipulated elections, and government-run unions were what kept us from the crime, pornography, and corruption of "decadent" countries like France (Gitane-somking leftists), England (youth-corrupting Beatles and miniskirts), the Netherlands (Amsterdam!), or Sweden (especially Sweden, with its neutrality, embrace of refugees from dictatorships, and openness about sex)."
I'm glad to see the fixers' arguments aren't being swallowed by everybody.
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